{"id":676,"date":"2022-02-08T00:21:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=676"},"modified":"2022-02-08T00:21:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:21:44","slug":"the-christianization-of-the-roman-forum-in-the-early-middle-ages","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/lecture\/the-christianization-of-the-roman-forum-in-the-early-middle-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christianization of the Roman Forum in the Early Middle Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">John Osborne, Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The Roman Forum stood at the heart of the ancient city, replete with temples, basilicas, and <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">numerous other buildings, both public and private.<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">But visitors to the city in the 19<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">th<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">century<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">describe it as a cow pasture, devoid of habitation.<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">This talk will explore what happened to the<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Roman Forum in the centuries after the emperors moved to Constantinople, and responsibility<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">for the upkeep of the city slowly devolved from the state to the Christian church, in the person of <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Rome\u2019s bishop, the pope.<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">What was the effect of this transformation on the physical space at<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the centre of the city?<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">And how long did the Roman Forum remain in use before it fell into<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">decay?<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">John Osborne<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">is a medievalist and cultural historian, with a special focus on the art and <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">archaeology of the cities of Rome and Venice in the period between the sixth and thirteenth<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">centuries. His numerous publications cover topics as varied as the Roman catacombs, the<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">fragmentary mural paintings from excavated churches such as San Clemente and S. Maria<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Antiqua, the decorative program of the church of San Marco in Venice, 17th-century antiquarian <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">drawings of medieval monuments, and the medieval understanding and use of Rome\u2019s heritage<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">of ancient buildings and statuary. He is also interested in problems of cultural transmission<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">between Western Europe and Byzantium. A graduate of Carleton University, the University of<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Toronto, and the University of London, he has held faculty and administrative positions at the<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">University of Victoria (1979-2001) and Queen\u2019s University (2001-2005), and is currently Dean of <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton. Promoted to the rank of full professor in<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">1989, he has held visiting fellowships at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; the Istituto Ellenico<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">di Studi Bizantini, Venice; and the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington.<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">In 2006 he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the British School at Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Osborne, Carleton University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[23,20,26],"tribe_events_cat":[17],"class_list":["post-676","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-christianity","tag-italy","tag-roman-empire","tribe_events_cat-ottawa-chapter","cat_ottawa-chapter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/676\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}